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The Leathes Head Blog

March 2024

    It’s a glorious spring morning in the Borrowdale Valley. And a real joy working in the garden listening to the birds, and the male mallard scuttling about the…

November

Today has been an exceptional autumn day in Borrowdale with clear, sunny skies. There are a variety of tree leaf and bracken colours in the hotel gardens and on the…

September

4 September The weather has been glorious these past few days in the Borrowdale Valley. The last spell of good weather was in June – the last time a blog…

June

June 2023 The weather in the Lake District these past two weeks has been wonderful: clear blue skies, warm but not too hot for a walk up Catbells or a…

May

16 May The azaleas are in full bloom in the gardens: their colours a brilliant range of reds and pinks. And our resident Mallard duck, which has been nesting next…

March

30 March As ever, this seems to be a month with more than the usual dramatic changes. There was heavy snow fall this year in the Borrowdale Valley and the…

February

15 February The weather has been dry and mild recently in the Borrowdale Valley. With this encouragement, the early spring flowers are making an appearance particularly snowdrops which are in…

January

January – The wettest month in the Lake District Calendar As the dawn of the New Year is upon us, the Leathes Head Team are busy with tidying up the…

December

  This has been the coldest week for at least a decade, the temperatures dropping to minus 7 on many nights. Yet, it has provided so many wonderful sights: full moons…
Image of the leathes head and garden

November

The tops of the fells in the Borrowdale Valley had their first light snowfall a few days ago and today we have had our first chilly winter fog over Derwentwater.…